the Shifting Sands report
employers are ill-prepared for 2011 workplace changes.
true or false?
make sure you're not one of them.
2011 sees the introduction of major changes in the workplace that will affect every organisation.
To protect your cost base and get the new workforce changes working for you, order our comprehensive Shifting Sands Report.
What's in the Shifting Sands Report?
The Shifting Sands Report, published by recruitment and HR services specialist Randstad, not only examines the challenges facing your business but provides solutions that will future-proof your resourcing strategy. It also examines, in detail, one of the biggest issues facing all sectors in 2011: the introduction of the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR). Randstad sees the advent of AWR as a positive not a negative. It's a real opportunity for an employer to improve the efficiency of its organisation, and our guide on how to conduct an Impact Assessment will assist.
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Section 1
Work, working and the workplace: it's all change
Everyone's now well aware of the big social/demographic changes which are in train: increased life-expectancy means we have an ageing population, and a declining proportion of that population is of working age. That adds up to greater demands on public services and diminished tax income to provide it – which simply doesn't add up.
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Section 2
The implications of austerity
A gap has opened up in productivity levels over recent years. Private sector productivity has increased by over 20%. Yet according to some indices, the corresponding movement in the public sector has been a decline of around 3%. But is this a reasonable like with like comparison?
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Section 3
The Agency Worker Regulations (AWR)
The Regulations come into force in October. Estimates abound in the range of 50-100% of agency workers that will have the right to the same basic working and employment conditions that they would have been entitled to had they been recruited directly by the organisation to do the same job.
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Section 4
The opportunity offered by the challenge of change
AWR, public sector cutbacks, demographic change: these factors are all provoking organisations to undertake major reviews of ways in which they recruit, deploy, retain, train and develop a workforce. This can only be for the better: a number of organisations are already discovering a level of disarray and dysfunction in the way they approach resourcing of which they were largely unaware.
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Section 5
How to handle AWR: getting down to brass tacks
So what do organisations need to do with regard to AWR? Well, obviously the exact actions which they're going to have to take will vary according to the size, the nature and the needs of the organisation involved. What should be common to all organisations though is the application of a methodology for dealing with the challenge.
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